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DA: Suspect regrets he didn't take out any cops
By adamg on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 1:04pm
A West Roxbury District Court judge today set bail at $500,000 for John Mentor, a convicted thug accused of taking a shot at police as they stopped the car he was in during a drug investigation last night, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports:
[He] shouted "I should have killed all three of you motherfuckers" upon being taken from the car's back seat.
Mentor and three other people were in a Honda Accord pulled over at River Street and Gordon Avenue in Hyde Park around 8:15 p.m. on Monday because its registration had been revoked, according to the DA's office, which says Boston Police Drug Control Unit has stepped up patrols in the area because it "has been plagued by drug-related crime in recent weeks."
The DA's office laid out its version of what happened next:
The DCU officers requested a marked cruiser to effect a motor vehicle stop on the Accord. A cruiser occupied by two uniformed Boston Police officers responded and stopped the vehicle near the intersection of River Street and Gordon Avenue.The uniformed officers and DCU officers approached the car to ask the driver, Carline Toussaint, (D.O.B. 7/30/84) of Brockton, for her license and registration. As they did so, Hallal said, Mentor produced a gray revolver and fired it through a partly-open right rear window at the officers. Another officer returned fire. No one was hit.
The officers dove bodily into the car and prevented Mentor from firing again. They extricated him from the vehicle and placed him on the ground, where he allegedly told officers that he should have killed them.
Officers also removed the other three occupants, who left eight plastic bags of marijuana in their wake when walked into the District 13 station. Toussaint provided officers with a ninth bag of marijuana that was on her person. She was cited for operating after her registration was revoked and for possession of marijuana.
Prosecutors say Mentor was on probation for a 2006 stabbing. In 2005, he was charged with robbing younger teens on buses leaving Forest Hills station.
Mentor is next due in court on May 11.
Innocent, etc.
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Comments
No, no, it's a misunderstanding.
he was shouting "I COULD have killed all three of you...". He was just glad they weren't hurt, and embarrassed that his gun happened to go off when they were right there.
(No one would be dumb enough to tell people who enforce the law that you wish you'd broken it by murdering them, right?!)
gee, and he was
just turning his life around....
This is a sad thing, to see
This is a sad thing, to see young men who feel like they have
nothing to lose in this world. Those that judge and those that
see and hear, let it be an example to you all.
Yup, and moreover,
as "Two Nations: One Black, One White" author Andrew Hacker succinctly put it:
"If they're prepared to waste the lives of others, they're not surprised when their turn comes up"
"Should have killed all three of you ..."
Of course it would be much easier to do exactly if your weapon were less of a thug fashion statement and more of a tool.
But, hey, learning to actually properly use your weapon and doing some target practice might actually be like, you know, work?
Lord help us all if these guys ever actually learn to make the best use of all the firepower they wave around for company, fire at each other and the cops, and use as props for baby pictures.